want to share my journey and healing through adoption in hopes that it serves as inspiration for others who share this experience.
Adoption has been my greatest teacher. I was adopted at five days old. When I was born, my birth mother didn’t want to see or touch me. I imagine myself placed in a bassinet, barely touched by the busy nursing staff, who, in the 70s, didn’t yet understand the critical importance of physical touch for child development—a concept now recognized through attachment theory.